• Good experience with analysis of the user needs documentation and translation into proper system requirement specifications and working under tight schedules. • Extensively used UML Modeler in the design process - Use cases, Sequence diagrams, Class diagrams. Prepared detailed design document and use cases/user scenarios, workflow diagrams for the application. • Experienced in Agile, Prototype and Test Driven (JUnit, mockito, MRunit) development methodologies. Ability to rapidly absorb new concepts and apply them effectively; effective in working independently and collaboratively in teams with excellent communication, task management and written skills with exemplary analytical and problem solving skills.TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Java / J2EE Developer

Start Date: 2009-07-01End Date: 2009-12-01

Description: More than 10 million people choose Progressive to insure their vehicles, making us one of the largest auto insurance groups in the country. Our customers choose us for the value and service we offer, including choices that make your insurance experience convenient, efficient and easy. Responsibilities: • Effectively interacted with team members and business users from different regions for requirements capture and Analysis • Responsible for Understanding the scope of the Project and Requirement gathering. • Used MVC architecture for application development. • Involved in the Development of Struts Framework Controllers. • Configured the URL mappings using struts-config.xml file. • Involved in creation of different Action Class. • Used JSP's and Struts for front end. • Worked on Hibernate object/relational mapping according to database schema. • Involved in the Development of JSPs for Profile Manager, Provider Manager. • Developed Service Interfaces, Models and DAO's for Struts Framework. • Used JMS for sending asynchronous request. • Responsible for Interact with the Product management team in Bluebell extensively • Involved E2E Development by integrating Front End and Backend by Debugging. • Involved in the creation of Test Cases for JUnit Testing. • Used SVN as configuration management tool for code versioning and release. Environment: Java 1.4, Struts 1.2, EJB, JBuilder, Web Logic Server 8.1, HTML, Star Team, Junit, JSP, Servlets, Macromedia Flash, Oracle 9i, windows XP, Struts1.2, , Rational Data Model, JAAS, MVC Pattern, Singleton Pattern.

Java / J2EE Developer

Start Date: 2008-01-01End Date: 2009-04-01

Description: Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global specialty pharmaceutical company with approximately $3 billion in revenues, a broad product line and operations in well-established and emerging markets. Responsibilities: • Developed JSP Views, Actions and delegating the tasks to corresponding session beans. • Used Struts for developing the front end. • Worked on Hibernate object/relational mapping according to database schema. • Used Factory pattern that delegates to corresponding Sub-class based on parameters passed. • Used Log4j Logger for all logging purposes and JUnit for integrated test runs , XML for building data structures required for Web Services and JMS for sending a-sync messaging using the Event based Framework. • Configured JMS Message Bridge, JMS Templates, JMS Source & Destination using Web, worked extensively on web logic and Tomcat servers. • Developed Web services - WSDL with Axis for the Claims application which will reveal the Claims pending for the customers and the unclaimed claims if any. • Deployment of Web services, JSP , Servlets and server side components in • WebLogic Experience in Java/J2EE Development, Database Design and PL/SQL development

Programmer

Start Date: 2006-06-01End Date: 2008-01-01

Description: The Patient care System is an internet-based remote health monitoring system implemented primarily to deliver an advanced, interactive personal health Record(PHR) that provides secure, member-controlled access for storing and retrieving relevant health data and benefits information, to facilitate information tracking and sharing by linking patients and their care teams(Health professionals). Responsibilities: • Involved in Analysis, Design, Coding and Development of custom Interfaces. • Developed Servlets and JDBC were used in retrieving data. • Deployed EJB Components on WebLogic. • Tested the modules and fixed the bugs. • XML was used to transfer the data between different layers • Dealt with java Beans helper classes and Servlets for interacting with the user interface written in JSP. Used JavaScript for client side validations. • Worked on database interaction layer for insertions, updating and retrieval operations on data. Environment: JAVA, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, XML, Weblogic, Oracle 8i, Win NT.

Software Engineer

Start Date: 2011-09-01End Date: 2012-10-01

I was a member of a small team responsible for implementing and maintaining a daily pipeline to process sales data and make it available to Google's internal CRM tool.Relevant technologies: MapReduce, Dremel, FlumeJava

Senior Systems Engineer

Start Date: 2012-09-01End Date: 2014-08-02

Cloudera is the industry leader in Apache Hadoop based data management systems. Apache Hadoop is the flexible, scalable, economical way to store, process and analyze all kinds of data. Our customers include the leaders in web, financial services, media, telecommunications, energy, biopharma and retail as well as government agencies. Our partners include the industry leaders in enterprise systems and software including Dell, Oracle, SGI, Teradata and Network Appliance. Investors include Accel, Greylock, Meritech Capital, In-Q-Tel and Ignition Ventures.

Western Region Lead Sales Engineer

Start Date: 2011-08-01End Date: 2012-09-01

My duties as a Lead Sales Engineer are focused on building and supporting a successful Sales Engineer team in the western United States and Canada. These responsibilities include mentoring, training, and supporting a team of SEs. Additionally, I serve as a direct liaison to our Engineering and Product Management team and have led initiatives to improve our POC process as well as develop customer facing workshops for product education.

Senior Control Systems Engineer

Start Date: 1999-01-01End Date: 2007-02-08

- Administered and managed Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system which controls and measures natural gas infrastructure between central Illinois and northern Illinois including the city of Chicago - Developed custom Java libraries for mapping Java classes to SCADA system database structures residing on MySQL. These libraries handled all database connectivity and queries and gave system programmers a set of Java Factory classes to use for data retrieval - Served as American Gas Association’s (AGA) industry lead on the AGA12 (SCADA encryption) working group - Worked closely with AGA and governmental agencies (DHS, DOE) to develop security standards for control systems used in the Critical Infrastructure Sector - Managed migration of six years of historical data (over 375 million rows spread over two databases and multiple tables) from Sybase to MySQL

Director of Systems Engineering, Central

Start Date: 2014-08-01End Date: 2015-04-13

Responsible for a highly skilled team of SE's working closely with our customers to 'Ask bigger questions' using the most scalable, flexible, cost effective data storage and analysis software on the planet - Cloudera's distribution including Apache Hadoop. My team covers a broad geographic area including the major Metro areas of Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Indianapolis.

Big Data Product Owner ( Cloudera Certified)

Timestamp: 2015-10-28

Highly analytical and hands on Big Data Product Owner with special emphasis on Business analytics and Data Science with around 8 Years’ IT experience. Cross-functional technology and business leadership expertise in technology products for Insurance, Fraud, Banking, Billing, Claims, Healthcare, and Utilities. Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and MBA in Business Analytics from a Top 15 business school. Good knowledge of Hadoop Architecture and various components such as HDFS, Job Tracker, Task Trackers, Name Node, Data Nodes. Expertise in understanding, extracting, and presenting the value of data through technologies/tools such as Sqoop, Flume, APIs, Pig, SQL, Hive, R, JSFiddle, Tableau, and MicroStrategy. Possess entrepreneurial creativity and an evangelical spirit while maintaining consistent focus on providing and presenting value for customers and providing feedback to internal product engineering teams.Domain Skills Healthcare•Insurance•Claims•Billing•Utilities•Finance•Sales and Distribution•Underwriting Fraud Certifications Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer• Certified Scrum Product Owner• Google Analytics R Programming•Getting and Cleaning Data•Exploratory Data Analysis

SAP Consultant

Start Date: 2007-01-01End Date: 2009-03-01

• Led product team of three engineers to develop custom sales and distribution module to determine Automatic Pricing for 2500 items, reducing time to quote by 80% • Owned the upgrade of one of Australia’s fastest growing bank, handling analysis and update of 64 % of the Programs, Unit Testing, Bug Triaging, and finally Go-Live in 4 months • Developed a Report from scratch which replicated the functionality of SAP – Quality Module “Inspection Lot Selection Screen” with added fields in the selection criteria • Developed a Vendor Account Balance wise Report using OOPS ABAP List View • Created a Module Pool Object for Direct Medical Bills needs to be posted through BDC program with appropriate Personnel Number and Cost Center • Developed Real Time Gross Settlement Report for a heavy manufacturing industry client • Involved in preparing the TS and Code Review for the objects done.

Through the years, I have been privileged to work with and learn from some of the finest professionals in our industry. My blessing is my curse, I am driven to do more and learn more about everything I can on a daily basis… make a better me. I have been so fortunate to assemble a team at R2i who are doing things differently, great people doing incredible things and delivering solid results for commercial and federal clients.My personal gift is helping people take that next step, whether with our veterans, interns or even seasoned professionals. I am an author, mentor, public speaker and innovator.Specialties: analytics, workflows, processing models, machine learning (limited) and derivative data products.Technologies: Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, HDFS, Elastic Search, YARN, Impala, Hive, Pig, Spark, Shark, R (various), Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, Azkaban, Khafka, Storm, Spring

Analytic/Infrastructure Developer and Cyber Security Lead

Start Date: 2013-08-01End Date: 2013-11-01

Served as a software developer, Java DeveloperModel: Agile, implemented using JIRARevised and released new releases of existing analytics.Revised existing data structures to eliminate issues related to poor scaling characteristicsDeveloped, revised and released new releases of service infrastructure services.Revised and released new services for integrating a NOSQL store and a Grails application.

Director Technical Services

Start Date: 2010-01-01End Date: 2010-12-01

** PLEASE NOTE AST ACQUIRED SEISMIC ** this was not a "job move"Department Manager AST Government Services - Worked with team to create present/future common vision and approach capturing and harmonizing the skills of the three merging organizations (well over 150 people).Developed the services roadmap and offerings with accompanying projected revenue and cost model for the new organization. Briefed the CEO and C-Class staff on the roadmap which was adopted without question.Value Added Partner Program - Implemented the Value Added Partner program with AST yielding over 4.2 million(1.3M first year and 4.3M second year) in out of band revenue. Corporate leadership repeatedly lauded this innovative approach to delivering significant revenue with minimal investment. This program resulted in some very attractive quarters where non-projected revenue came in at the bell.IRAD - Developed three different IRAD systems which were evaluated by the customers using CLOUD Technologies and memory clustering.

Chief Software Architect

Start Date: 2003-08-01End Date: 2005-02-01

Lead Software Engineer for a large service oriented architecture implementation. Responsible for the direction, planning, coordination and execution of the development efforts of forty engineers. The challenges addressed by my leadership included: scale, security, design and tuning. The design developed for the knowledge bus incorporated OLTP, OLAP and DSS system bases. Additonally, my team was responsible for designing and implementing the information management framework to allow access to data from the service base.The products that I used in this capacity included: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10G, OID, OLS and MetaMatrix. My speciality is designing secure databases (IAW DCID 6-3/FIPS-140) that scale well into the Terabyte range.

Software Engineer/Senior Vice President

Start Date: 2000-02-01End Date: 2002-07-01

Responsible for building my business unit for five to thirty four engineers, resulting in the priming of several contracts, strategic subcontracting and development of one product for the companu.For a government customer, participated in the development of a winning proposal for a portal implementation. Served as lead on the portal effort, integrating at least five legacy systems into the portal framework.(Oracle Portal, Oracle 8.1.7)For a government customer, I lead an effort of four people that consolidated twelve applications based on different servers to a single server and a common release of Oracle software(Oracle 8.1.7). Developed the disaster recovery plan and archive manager for the new architecture. This consolidation resulted in simplification of the architecture, greater up-time and savings of millions of dollars.

Independent Consultant

Start Date: 2002-08-01End Date: 2003-08-01

Lead Database Engineer/Data Architect/Analytic Developer for a VLDB (Very Large Database) effort. Responsible for disaster recovery, tuning, data retirement and space allocation strategies. Implemented the programs first tuning effort that resulted in reduced query response by seventy five percent. Revised the partitioning strategy resulting a significant increase in performance. Developed a comprehensive program of tuning and optimization that resulted in reduced down time and increased the customer satisfaction index by ten points. Transitioned from a maintenance intensive operation to a lights out automated operation in three months. Organized the effort to document the design and capture the key lessons learned from migration activities. Executed a migration from one hardware platform to another that included: space allocation strategy, optimization, file system tuning, OS tuning and full fidelity testing. Introduced and implemented an OLAP service base for the customer on time and under budget.

IT Consultant

Start Date: 1997-04-01End Date: 2006-06-01

Providing computer and network support to Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Executive TeamTop level troubleshooting and response for software and hardware issuesMaintain Radionics security system at headquarters and Governor’s Mansion (Jeb Bush)Configuration of remote, surveillance equipmentForensic Data recovery using EnCase, OnTrack, and other utilitiesReviewing, testing, and evaluating new technologyPlanned for Statewide (Florida) Active Directory implementationMentoring, assisting, and teaching Team Members as neededResolve complex configuration, software, and hardware problemsConfiguration of VTC equipment for management conferencesFollow-up with customers to ensure satisfactory incident closureEnsure work is performed in accordance to company policies, standards, and proceduresSolid Microsoft skills, MCSE NT4, 2003 Trained, MCSE + InternetProficient in all Microsoft Office SuitesUse security devices like Biometrics for authenticationVery personable, with excellent people skills, and work well under pressure

Sr Systems Administrator

Start Date: 2008-09-01End Date: 2008-12-01

Worked as a contractor to Lockheed Martin IS&GS in Goodyear, AZ as a Senior Systems Administrator and System Integrator. • Worked on the DCGS-AF 10.2 program including the Data Integration Backbone (DIB). • Duties involved configuration and maintenance of Unix-Solaris 10, Linux and Windows servers. • Also involved in configuration of Active Directory, LDAP, DNS and other tools within the NCES Security framework. • Returned to work in Virginia after house did not sell in four months.

Senior Systems Engineer

Start Date: 2001-10-01End Date: 2007-05-01

EAI Operations Lead on a federal eTravel project known as GovTrip (www.govtrip.com) • Management of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) operations • Primary Unix system administrator on servers used for systems integration with federal agencies • Installation of hardware, configuration of HP-UX, Oracle, Global Exchange (GEX) and other COTS /GOTS software, configure fault-tolerant direct connect storage using RAID. • Evaluation of requirements and implementation of hardware and software upgrades • Configuration management on all interface servers • Periodic security scans using DISA STIG and other tools, implement necessary changes to secure servers according to security standards established by DoD and GSA • Direct involvement with operations and network security teams at each federal agency to set up and maintain interfaces • Provide 24/7 production support for all federal agencies under contract with NGMS for e-travel services • Wrote XML and XML schema using XMLspy. • Worked with Oracle and Progress DBAs to assist in large data migration effort.

Big Data Solutions Architect

Start Date: 2014-03-01End Date: 2014-10-01

Served as a Big Data Solutions Architect assisting with enterprise strategy, architecture and tools. • Analysis of company goals, resources, constraints, past history related to Big Data • Analysis of current program direction and strategy with recommendations • Analysis of hardware and software selection with recommendations • Analysis of Hadoop configuration and Chef automation with recommendations • Led the evaluation of Hadoop distributions, documented comparative analysis of fit and features, costs • Documentation of Big Data architectural approach using Sparx Enterprise Architect tool • Big Data Ecosystem Tool research and recommendations for Proof of Concepts • Managed vendor relationships and communications • Led coordination of efforts between architects, developers and administrators

Lead Technical Architect, Business Intelligence Group

Start Date: 2012-09-01End Date: 2014-03-01

Joined American Express to provide enterprise architecture support in the Business Intelligence group • Primary focus involved Big Data enterprise strategy, architecture and tools • Evaluated and evolved strategy to ensure it met the needs of the enterprise • Evaluated and recommended platforms and ecosystem tools to fit business unit requirements • Built a research lab with Hadoop clusters for more thorough product evaluations • Worked closely with business units to discover opportunities, mitigate pain points • Worked with team on issues such as Data Governance, BI and Analytics, Enterprise Data Architecture, Knowledge Sharing • Certified by MapR and Cloudera as a Hadoop Administrator